BALLIOLENSIS. _Porson's jeu d'esprit is reprinted in the_ Facetiæ Cantabrigienses (1850). p. 16. ENQUIRER. _A triolet is a stanza of eight lines, in which, after the third the first line, and after the sixth the first two lines, are repeated, so that the first line is heard three times: hence the name. It is suited for playful and light subjects, and is cultivated by the French and Germans. The volume of_ Patrick Carey's Trivial Poems and Triolets, _edited by Sir Walter Scott, in 1820, from a MS. of 1651, is an early instance of the use of the term_. A. B. M. _The line referred to_--"Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war"--_is from_ Othello, _Act III. Sc. 3_. JARLTZBERG. _Has not our Correspondent received a note we inclosed to him respecting_ The Circle of the Seasons? OLD MORTALITY'S _offer of a collection of Epitaphs is declined with thanks. We have now waiting for insertion almost as many as would fill a cemetery._ ABHBA. _The proverb "Mad as a March hare" has appeared in our_ Fourth Volume, p. 208.--_Also, in the same volume_, p. 309. _&c., will be found several articles similar to the one forwarded on "Bee Superstitions."_ F. (Oxford.) _The extract forwarded from Southey's_ Common Place Book _is a copy of the title-page of the anonymous work required_. H. C. M. _The date of the earliest Coroner's Inquest, we should think, cannot be ascertained. The office of Coroner is of so great antiquity that its commencement is not known. It is evident that Coroners existed in the time of Alfred, for that king punished with death a judge who sentenced a party to suffer death upon the Coroner's record, without allowing the delinquent liberty to traverse._ (Bac. on Gov. 66.; 6 Vin. Abr. 242.) _This officer is also mentioned by Athelstan in his charter to Beverly_ (Dugd. Monast. 171.). I. R. R. _Henry Machyn was a citizen and merchant-tailor of London from A.D. 1550 to 1563. See a notice of him prefixed to his_ Diary, _published by the Camden Society_.----_An account of John Stradling, the epigrammatist, will be found in Wood's_ Athenæ (Bliss), vol. ii. p. 396.----_Hockday, or Hokeday, is a high-day, a day of feasting and mirth, formerly held in England the second Tuesday after Easter, to commemorate the destruction of the Danes in the time of Ethelred._----_For notices of George Wither in the_ Gentleman's Mag., _see_ vol. lxxxvi. pt. ii. 32. 201.; vol. lxxxvii. pt. i. 42.; vol. lxxxviii. pt. i. 138.----_An interesting account of the_ Paschal _Eggs is given in Hone's_ Every-Day Book, vol. i. p. 246., vol. ii. pp. 439. 450.; _and in Brand's_ Popular Antiquities.----_Marvell's reference is probably to Charles Gerard, afterwards created Baron Gerard of Brandon, gentleman of the bed-chamber to Charles II., and captain of his guards._